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SaaS
Software-as-a-Service businesses offering cloud-based tools and platforms to businesses.
12
Startups tracked
$4.5B
Total capital raised
Bengaluru
Top hub · 3 of 12
1996-2017
Founding span
Market concentrationby capital raised
30%
of sector capital sits with Freshworks alone ($1.4B of $4.5B).
Freshworks $1.4BOther 11
Stage mix12 startups
GeographyHQ city
Top fundedthe sector's capital leaders
All startups 12primary members first, then by capital raised
FreshworksPrimarypublic
India-origin, San Mateo-HQ SaaS company for customer service, CRM and IT service management; first Indian SaaS firm on Nasdaq.
ChargebeePrimarylate
Chennai-origin, US-HQ SaaS platform automating subscription billing and revenue operations for businesses.
GupshupPrimarylate
Gupshup provides a conversational-messaging (CPaaS) platform enabling businesses to engage customers over WhatsApp, SMS and other channels.
PostmanPrimarylate
India-origin, San Francisco-HQ API platform used by millions of developers to build, test and collaborate on APIs.
DarwinboxPrimarylate
Darwinbox is a cloud HR/HCM platform for enterprises across Asia and beyond, competing with SAP and Oracle.
MindticklePrimarylate
Mindtickle offers a sales-readiness and revenue-enablement platform for training, coaching and analytics of customer-facing teams.
WhatfixPrimarylate
Whatfix provides a digital adoption platform delivering in-app guidance and onboarding across enterprise software.
BrowserStackPrimarylate
Mumbai-founded cloud platform for testing websites and mobile apps across real browsers and devices.
MoEngagePrimarylate
MoEngage is an insights-led customer-engagement platform for cross-channel marketing and retention.
IcertisPrimarylate
Icertis provides an AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that digitizes and governs enterprise contracts.
HasuraPrimarygrowth
Hasura builds an open-source GraphQL engine that instantly composes real-time APIs over databases and services for developers.
ZohoPrimarylate
Chennai-origin, bootstrapped global SaaS company offering a broad suite of business applications.
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